These links will take you advice and guidance on setting up a food enterprise and managing it on an ongoing basis.
Structures
Legal structures for social enterprises
Helping you to find the most suitable structure for your sustainable farming or food enterprise.
Community farming
An introduction to Community Supported Agriculture, and advice on how to set up and run a community farming project.
Community gardening
Links to advice and resources to help you set up and manage a community garden, along with some ideas for activities.
Money
Finance and funding
Sources of funding and where to go to get advice on financing your social enterprise.
Running a food enterprise
Food safety and law
Checklists and tools to help you with food safety legislation
Managing stakeholders
From organising groups and making group decisions, through to dealing with conflicts, here’s where to find advice on managing stakeholders.
Organic certification
Obtaining organic certification, including a low-cost alternative to organic certification. Other options for certifying sustainability.
Evaluation
Measuring impact
Measuring the impcact of your food enterprise
Advice for planners
Food and planning
Links to consultation responses on local food issues. From Sustain, the alliance for food and farming.
Planning sustainable cities for community food growing
Guidance for planners on writing planning policies. This guide brings together examples of planning policies around the UK that support community food growing.
Good Planning for Good Food
Explores how local authorities and communities can use planning policy and decision-making to create more local and sustainable food systems.
